Sina Rahmani

Sina Rahmani is Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of English and Film Studies, University of Alberta. He recently completed his PhD in the Department of Comparative Literature at UCLA. His current research examines the link between the rise of the refugee problem and the postwar history of containerization.

The sorrow and outrage provoked by the attacks on the French satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo were underwritten by an all-too-familiar grand narrative: These were not the cowardly misdeeds of a group ...